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Originally Posted by akprodr

re: telecine Something to be aware of is the difference in frame rate between film and video. For experimental porpoises, yeah, you can just project the film on a wall and record it with a camcorder. Using a CMOS camcorder would produce very spotty results; a CCD model would be preferred. Your eye has persistance but camcorders don't.

A professional telecine compensates for the difference in frame rates--doubling or tripling video fields to match with the film frames. yr lab has a good tutorial on it... (And you know they don't process B&W, right?)

But, doing it at home, you can do optical effects like project/shoot at an angle, zoom in, etc.

i've seen a machine that is rigged as follows: it runs the film frame by frame and then it captuers in camera frame by frame. there's some sync involved and the optics work something like a DOF adapter would.

these are products of cottage industries rather than makers of industrial gear, but i've seen them work. the real cheapos do it poorly, others do a decent job. i'd rather put my $ on a good HD video camera

a lot of houses are digitizing film these days for reasonable fees, on DV or DigiBeta, depending on what you wanna pay for. This girl I know I think was offered $150 per 1/2 hour of 16mm to DV. Thing is she got 10 minutes it still costs $150 and it's DV where 16mm would fit more like 2K so I'd do it at HD capture (pillarboxed) or 16x9 and crop the top/bottom edges-- but that's $$$ I think more like $400 per 1/2 hour plus setup fees etc.